FRENCH

Cognitive foundations of natural history: Towards an anthropology of science

By Scott Atran

Book information

Publisher
Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
Year
1990
ISBN
9782735102969, 2-7351-0296-3
Language
french
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2717290 bytes)
Pages
186\186
Topic
History
Time added
2010-04-25 21:59:20

Description

What is it about human nature that makes our species capable of thinking scientifically? Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, Scott Atran traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology. The author proceeds not only from the more traditional philosophical, historical or sociological perspectives, but from a point of view he considers more basic and necessary to all of these: that of cognition.

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